15 Nov 2011

It is so wonderful to be associated with missionaries,  We love them all so much.  They are always so happy and thank you so many times for every kind thing you do, 

Winter is coming quickly.  We have had a couple of small snow storms but nothing big.  And we are at about 32 degrees most of the time.  The worse part is that we are getting so little daylight.  I miss the sunshine and blue skies.  It is dark when we get up  and close to dark about 5pm.  But it will get worse so too bad. 

District meeting at our apartment.  Elder Spoerri, Elder Palmer, Sister Ashby,
Elder Hayes, Elder Ayers, Elder Gronning and Sister Marty.  Love them all.

Yevgenny and Gene.  He is one of our new members.  He is such a cute kid.
We love him too.

Elder Hayes new hat.

Henry and Elenka Kosak.  He is the director over CES.  It was his
birthday and brought in some treats.  Really good German patries.
they are German.

English Club.  Sister Marty and sister Ashby and I
all wore the same color.

This is the biggest bag of flour I can find, then the biggest bag of sugar
next to it and then you buy eggs by the 10's not a dozen.  Very seldom
can we find white eggs.  The dark yellow yokes kind of freek me out.

A fun Senior Council night.  We were all invited to President Lawrences house
for dinner.  So Elder Anderson rented a bus, (We all pitcched in) so that we all
could get to his house.  There was no other way to get there.  Getting places is
such a big hassel and it always takes so long.

This is our big blue bus.

New CES couple Elder and Sister Naegle.  They live about 30 steps
from our apartment.  We had Sunday dinner with them.  Then watched Stake
Conference with them.

This was the first stake conference conducted by the Russia
Stake Presidency.  We do not have any buildings large enough to
have the whole stake in.  And this conference had some satelite broadcat
with it from SLC.  so they asked the seniors to stay home and watch it
on the internet so the members could have the room, plus there would
not be much English translation.  We thought that was a great idea.

This is our newest member Valeria.  He was Baptized Sat. Nov. 12th.  His mother
is next to him and Brother Narbotnokov and His mother are on the other side.
They are related..I think like 2nd counsins,

Elders Everett, Ayers and Hayes who all helped teach him.

All the Narbotnokov family and the Elders with Valeria.

Sister Ashby with cute little Olla.  Her mama made
her skirt and shirt.  And she had purple shoes to match.

Just us with Sister Ashby and 2 precious little Babushkas. (grandmas)